Hide Tagged Photos In Facebook
This article will teach you how you can hide tagged photos on your wall from your friends. Sometimes friends (or so called friends) tag photos that you don’t want your other friends to see. So in order to hide your tagged photos from friends in Facebook you need to configure some settings. Here is a brief tutorial which will teach you how you can hide these photos from friends.
Step 1: Click on the down arrow on the top right corner of Facebook.
Step 2: Click on Privacy Settings.
Step 3: Click on Edit Settings in front of How Tags Work.
Step 4: Here you got lots of options through which you can set the visibility of tagged photos on Facebook. Click on the menu in front of “Maximum Timeline Visibility” and click on “Custom”. Note: If you see Maximum Profile Visibility rather than Maximum Timeline Visibility then it means your Timeline feature is not activated. But the procedure for both of them is the same so go on and click “Custom”.
Step 5: Set “These People or Lists” to “Only Me”. Done!
Now whenever your friends tag a photo of yours it would not appear on your timeline. And your other friends will not be able to see it. In this way your can hide tagged photos and posts on Facebook.
Thanks, I was looking for this and everyone said that’s not possible on new facebook.
I’m glad it helped you
I did this, and while it does seem to hide the photos, now people can’t write on my wall. Any suggestions?
Privacy Settings > How You Connect
Here change the value of “Who can post on your timeline?” according to your need.
I had the same problem as Jason, and followed your next advice. It still seems to block people from being able to post on my wall or comment on anything that I post myself. That doesn’t seem right, does it?
I’ve just tested out and my friend was able to post on my timeline. Have you upgraded to the new Facebook Timeline?
I had a similar problem. I adjusted the settings as you suggested and it had removed the ability for people to post on my wall.
Afterwards, when I tried changing the settings back however people are still not able to post on my wall. Any idea why this is?
How do I block people from seeing my “info” tab on facebook?
I’ve just written a post on this topic. Here –> How To Hide My Info On Facebook
Sorry for the late response.
i just want to hide my tagged photos to everyone apart from from my boyfriend? i did what was above but my wall could not be seen by some people, and could be seen by others?!? very confused. where is this post on your timeline section? thank you,
I’ve already answered about the same issue in one of the comments above. Here I’m going to paste that reply again:
Click on down arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook. Then click on Privacy Settings, after that click on “How You Connect”.
Here change the value of “Who can post on your timeline?” according to your need.
hey, i did this, but my photos still apear on my facebook, any advice?
Did you view your profile “as a friend”?
Thanks for the post, however I do not know if I am doing it correct, the only thing that I want is just to prevent anyone viewing my page to see the photos i am tagged in by others, that is it, i still want others to see tagged posts along with everything else, just not other peoples photos that i am tagged in. Thank you
Hm. It seems currently there is no option for what you want to achieve. There is an alternate (but hectic) way of doing so. Try using “Timeline Review” feature in step 4.
How do I hide my tagged photos but NOT my tagged posts and check-ins?
(Reply Repeated) Hm. It seems currently there is no option for what you want to achieve. There is an alternate (but hectic) way of doing so. Try using “Timeline Review” feature in step 4.
If you wanted to do this how would you? Is there anyway to basically set it so going forward you can allow people to tag you in posts but then you can still hide your photos?
Hi. I tried to do exactly what u suggested but i dont get the ‘Maximum timeline visibility’ option under ‘how tags work’. Any suggestions to help me prevent friends seeing my tagged photos..? please help.
If you haven’t activated your Timeline Feature then you will see “Maximum Profile Visibility” instead of “Maximum Timeline Visibility”. Next steps are same for both of them.
Thanks it was really helpfull
I’m glad you find it useful
hi there,i try your solution but it seem to hide everything.i just want to hide my tagged photos and video.can i achieve that?
By everything you mean posts you are tagged in? Currently there is no way to hide tagged images only. Posts will also go invisible.
This seems ridiculous that you have to hide EVERYTHING and you can’t just hide photos you are tagged in. This never used to be the case? All i want to do is hide photos i am tagged in and videos-why is there not a simple button to click in the privacy settings that gives us this option?
Agreed. Each time they update Facebook, they completely change the options and the users keep wandering around the web searching for Facebook tutorials.
bless you! finally i can get rid of that annoying photo thing on top of the profile. i don’t care if the tagged posts are hidden as well, it’s an advantage to me. thank you so much! TT-TT
Thanks for the comment K.
I just want my photos tagged. not my posts. dammit facebook.
posts of friends that you were tagged in.and how to hide it from other friends?
thanks. i’ve been looking all over the privacy settings but i dnt know where exactly is it.
please, help
Hello, I was wondering, is there an option which hides tagged photos from my timeline, but keeps them in my ‘Photos’ section? I want that my friends can see the photos I’m tagged in in the ‘Photos’ section, but not on my timeline. (and I hope that there is another way instead of clicking ‘hide from timeline’ on every tagged photo, one by one)
I also have this problem, have you managed and how?
Thanks for the info. Do you know how to hide the photo from your timeline, but still keep yourself tagged in the photo? Every time I click on “Hide from timeline” on a photo I’m tagged in, it untags me so in my “Photos of You” the picture goes away.
Thanks!
Hello, I also have the same problem, have you managed and how?
Gr8 post dude.. I was looking all over… but final i found this article.. good work and Thank you..
When I go into how tag works then edit I only get ” Profile Review controls whether you have to manually approve posts you’re tagged in before they go on your profile. When you have a post to review, the Profile Review tab will appear on your”
Hi,
I want to hide photos tagged with me but not posts tagged with me such as status updates. The above privacy setting hides all tags, including posts.
Do you know how to hide just the tagged photos?
I did this and all my friends can still see my tagged photos, i do not understand
If I activate the timeline maximum visibility on “only me”, does it mean that if I am also tagged in check-ins people can see it? I mean, does the protection count just for tagged photos? because I left the option of allowing people to check-in me, because I want them to but also I don’t want people to be able to see that those friends have checked me in. I hope I am clear about what I am trying to say. Thanks!
Thanks.. it was helpful
Thank you so much. Though it was impossible to get rid of tagged photos from what the other sites were telling me. And its so easy, duh.
how do i hide only my tagged pictures and not my posts on facebook timeline???
Hi Tania,
Read once again through the post. It describes exactly what you want to achieve. You are not hiding the posts just the tagged photos.
Change to FB policy made separatelly hiding photos or videos only no longer possible (for now at least) … with some pressure from users this might change …. but i think FB went to big to hear what their users have to say.
I am having the same issue as Tania and read through the posts again, yet I am still confused. I want to hide the photos so it doesn’t say “Photos (1,024)” and so that no one can see tagged photos. But if a friend tags me in a status…I want THAT to appear on my profile. Is there a way to do this? It seemed that in an earlier comment you said there wasn’t a way to accomplish this, yet in your reply to Tania it seems like there IS a way to hide only tagged photos not posts.
Your posts are otherwise hugely helpful so I want to make sure I have it completely clear. Thanks!
Hi,
You are right. They changed the policy. You can no longer hide only images or videos. You either hide everything (posts included) or nothing. FB is playing on us
thanxx a ton …it ws rly helpful!!
i also want to know how can i hide all my photos on facebook from a friend
hey i am trying to look for this everywhere but unfortunately that feature is no longer available.
from how tags work now is ” timeline and tagging”
please help .. i cant even delete some of the tag pictures or the tag so im am really concerned .
thank you
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thank you it helped meeee
thank you ! it was useful.
Worked perfectly. Great directions. Thanks
im on timeline but there’s no MAXIMUM TIMELINE VISIBILITY
I was tag by my friend but my friends could not see the picture even if the settings is visible for all my friends. I tried to share but it doesnt show up in their wall either. Please help!!
i try to do that, but in my privacy settings the how tags work doesn’t appear. what can i do?
the new facebook doesn’t have the “How Tags Work” option i can only see “Timeline and tagging” can i still hide my tagged photos??
thanks…
how do you do it now with all the new facebook changes???
Is there an option which hides tagged photos from my timeline, but keeps them in my ‘Photos’ section?